First month on tour
Damon's POV
My dearest Emily,
Today we said farewell to The United States and taking a plane to London for the first day of tour at the O2 arena. I miss you already hopefully we can Skype or face time at some point but not today since I'm about to sit in a metal tube for the next nine hours and forty minutes so I am going to spend the time writing a letter to you. I know it's only for a six months, and I know we will talk during the time, but I'm still not used to not being around you and giving pep talks to each other. My great -Grandfather George once told me a story about how he met my great grandmother Rebecca and courted it was during the war he was drafted and they spent two years away from each other, and it took weeks sometimes for letters they wrote to each other to get back and forth between them across the ocean. My great grandfather told me he would carry his latest letter from her wherever he went during the war, reading it over and over again, analyzing every word. . He said it helped him to feel like she wasn't so far away, like she was with him when he was fighting. Unfortunately, she died before I was born, so I never got to hear her side of the story. We still have all the letters, though and when I get back to the states I will show you those letters. I guess I wrote this story down because it put in to perspective that there are plenty of couples throughout history who have dealt with longer separations than six months and with advance technology we can see each other even though we are half way around the world.
So, today's trip is our plane ride first class to London then we meet up with our tour buses and start rehearsal and then I await jet lag.
I look forward to seeing you through the phone or lap top when we can schedule it, but I also love having you, your words, emails, texts, and pictures here on my phone and lap top, so that you are with me the whole time giving me pep talks in my mind
With all my love,
Damon